September 23, 2009
Eco-Friendly Living
According to many experts, we are at or very near “Peak Oil“—the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. Whether we have reached the peak, or perhaps have another decade or more, one thing is certain: oil is a finite [...]
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July 30, 2009
Eco-Friendly Living
More than 90 percent of all the food grown in the U.S. is reliant on synthetic fertilizer made from petrochemicals. Without it there would be no food for most of us. The soils of America’s industrial agriculture system are dead, compacted and depleted, so without artificial fertilizer, there’s just not enough nutrients for the crops [...]
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